PSG will face the surprise of this now Final 6, RB Leipzig, a club of ten years and already in the semi-finals of the Champions League. Fall champions, the Germans, scorers from Tottenham in the round of 16 and Atlético de Madrid this Thursday evening (2-1), finished the Bundesliga in third place after a second part of season less brilliant than the first. PSG-Leipzig will offer many matches in the match. It is first of all a duel of German coaches who know each other by heart.
Julian Nagelsmann, 33, embodies the new wave of coaches in Europe, who was four years ago in Hoffenheim the youngest technician in the Bundesliga. Its rating continues to climb thanks to the resolutely offensive football that it offers, to its theoretical side of the game that it puts forward with training methods based on cutting-edge technology.
Tuchel finds his pupil
Above all, he knows Thomas Tuchel perfectly, who was his coach in the Augsburg B team that the current boss of the Parisian team led in the mid-2000s. He will even become one of Tuchel's recruiting assistants. after an injury which forced him to interrupt his career as a defender at the age of 20. This Tuesday, the teacher and the student meet and clash with, in the background, fairly similar ideas on the principles in a meeting.
The other reunions refer to the four Frenchmen who sit in the RB's workforce: Dayot Upamecano (21), the boss of the three-way defense, calm, strong in impact, Ibrahima Konaté (21), Nordi Mukiele (22 years), two other defenders, and especially Christopher Nkunku (22), trained at PSG.
Nkunku, indisputable holder
He left his family on a missed goal in the final of the Coupe de France 2019 against Rennes, he found them by the big door in the semi-final of the Champions League. Undoubtedly holder, it evolves within the attack to three in the 3-4-3 (or 3-4-2-1) of Nagelsmann. Which has lost at the end of the season Timo Werner, Thomas Meunier or Edinson Cavani from Leipzig. The international striker preferred to devote himself to his new club, Chelsea, rather than ending the season with his partners. Without him, in the league, RB Leipzig won only once.
With the relative decline of the Swedish Emil Forsberg, replacing in quarter, the hub of the formation of Nkunku is called Marcel Sabitzer, the Austrian torchbearer. Both sides of the defense are occupied by German internationals Lukas Klostermann and Marcel Halstenberg. Hungarian goalkeeper Peter Gulacsi has been recognized by the press as the best goalkeeper in the Bundesliga.
